How a liberal Democrat mega-donor bought a Republican Congress primary in Tennessee | Eastern NC Now

The more that comes out on the shock upset of conservative Congressman Andy Ogles in a Congressional primary in Tennessee, the worse it stinks.  Factors included much of the district being new to Ogles as a result of the new redistricting and that Tennessee allows non-Republicans to vote in GOP primaries, but the main factor was a last minute deluge of special interest money

The official campaigns of Ogles and his primary opponent together spent around a million dollars each.  That was dwarfed by two million dollars of last minute special interest money flooding the airwaves.  The :Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, supporting the Big Wind and Big Solar special interests was the group dishing out the big bucks.

That much was known, but it gets worse.  The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC was largely bankrolled by a California-based liberal Democrat mega-donor named Chris Larsen, who is CEO of the crypto company Ripple.  So Larsen has now bought himself a congressman in a Republican Tennessee district.

It gets even worse because Larsen is now looking for other places to subvert Republicans.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4679875/invest-in-tomorrow-coalition-pac-disrupting-gop-primaries-2026-elections/

We in the 79th NC House district should recognize the pattern because the same thing was just done to us by big spending special interests, Big Ag with a postcard campaign and the Gambling / Casino lobby with a last minute TV blitz.